New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-19
GOAL BEGINNING TO MOVE.
NEW MEN PUT AT WORK IN JERSEY CITY

H D' L" AND W. RESUMES OPERATIONs-NO vrO.
LkNcE-oIHER COMPANIES TO GO TO wORS
TO-DAY.
Altcr an enforced idlencss Of two weeks tn
delaware. LaclSawanna and Western coal wharvcs
Ill Jersey CITY resumed yesterday their usual ap.
Teafancc OF activity and even more, for in all
di'ion 10 full force Of coal handlers busily en-
eascd In unloading coal cars and loading up barges
and canal boats the 90 rnxertons men upon whom
special police powers had been conferred by the
Jersey City Police Commissioners were on active
duty and lent additional animation to the scene
! ne coalhandlcrs were Italians, Ihngarians and
Others who had been brought in from Scranton
and other points OH the road. They numbered
ABOUT zoo, and having had some experience In
handilnS coal, the work went along eXpeditiOusly
Inc new men Will eat and sleep for the present
In cars provided by the company. The Pinkerton
men arc also provided with cars to live in when
not on duty, but they are provided with bettee
accommodations than the "scabs,r as they ara
called. The Pinkcrton men are provided with
winchester repeating rifles, but they were not
removed from the cars yesterday
The presence Of PinSeItOns men excited fhs
wrath OF the strikers and trouble was expected
during the day, but none came. Their appoint
ment has also excited the Indignation of Mayor
Cleveland. who declares that the Police Com
policemen Of an armed body of men brought here
from the West and who arc nOn.rcsidents. Ihs
charter requires that TO be policeman man
must have been resident of the city for thres
years prior to his appointment. and the same rule
applies to Specials Mr.. Cleveland will look
up the law in the matter anl cndcavor TO have
the appointments revoked If they are illegal In
add tion to the specials" fifteen regular policemen
In uniform, under the command OF Inspector
langc, were on duty at the wharvcs all day.
They were under instructions to preserve tho
peace and at the same time that the Specials
did not overstep their authority.
slight alteration occurred in the afternoon be
tween a striker and one of Pinkcrton's men,
committee Of fifteen strikers from the main body
went down TO the wharves TO do picket duty
They claim that their object was to protect the
company's property from injury as they would he
held responsible in case any damage was done.
The committee had not proceeded far before they
were ordered back by the Specials The formid
able appearance of Pinllcrton's men discouraged
the committee and they started to rctracc then
steps John Kennedy of No. l42 Ferry St.,
lIobolIcn, of the committee, undertook t
argue the question with a special and wa
promptly knocked down. lie lost no further time
in leaving the wharf. Subsequently Kennedy
made charge Of assault and battery against the
"siecial and Justice Weed issued warrant fa
his arrest. All the constables being duty a.
Wcehawllen, tie Justice deputized a man
named Condor to serve the warrant. Kennedy
and Condor went TO the wharf, the former to
point out his assailant and the latter to make the
arrest. Kennedy say his man and Condor started
TO get him, but both were stopped by the
specials and told that they could not 60 on
the wharf. The warrant was produced. but that
had no effect and a local policeman asked
to make the arrest. The policeman refused. say:
ing that he had enough to do without serving
Justices warrants, and Kennedy and Condor wen
compelled to return without their prisoner. The
facts were reported to Mayor Cleveland.
The company's wharvcs were closely guarded
all day. no one being permitted on them without
pass from Superintendent Varian. All informa
tion refused by the regular and special poles
and access could not be had TO the superintendent
any other official The quantity Of coal
handled could not be ascertaincd. At p m
the men quit work and retired to their cars.
The regular police returned to headquarters and
the specials" remained on duty, guarding not
only the wharves but the cars in which the new
men were lodged IL is thought that If the
movement OF coal becomes general all along tho
strike must Of necessity end.
The Pcnnsy ylvania Railroad Company will re
sumo operations at 0 a. m. to-day. Until Sunday
night or carly Monday morning the company had
been loading cars on freight floats and sending
them 10 High Bridge for the use of the elevated
railroads, and TO Brooklyn for the Lcny Island
Railroad Company. AS already reported about
$50 Of the strikers stopped this work about
a. IN. Monday and only few cars have been
loaded since that time. at intervals when tho
strikers were not looking. Yesterday afternoon
James B. Vredenburgh, counsel for the company,
served formal notice upon Mayor Cleveland.
as required by the statute. that operations wouid
be resumed at a. m. to-day and that the city
will be held responsible for any damage done 10
the company's property. The notice also demands
protccto as provided for in the laws concerning
riots IL will be referred to the Chief OF Police.
In case OF an actual riot the Mayor is cmpOwercd
by law to assume the duty OF quclllng IL. several
committees Of the strikers called upon the Mayor
yesterday and assured him that no violence was
intended and the strikers would keep the peace
no matter what might happen
The long procession of coal carts ca,tnic coal
from the Pcnnsylyani Railroad yards to retail
dealers IN Ncw-lOrk and TO the Lehigh valley
Coal Company'S wharf at Hudsonst. kept moving
all day, each cart being guarded by policeman
None Of the strikers went To the LehSh Com
,any's wharf and only one Policeman was on duiy
there There was no further interference with Tho
supply for Matthlcssens sugar house and inomp-
sons steel works. policeman being detaii'd 70
patrol lludsonst., Though which the cars arc
hauled by horses.
About 200 strikers met yesterday morning In
I,incy's Hall. Hobolen and discussed the stua-
tion for five hours. What occurred could not 10
ascertaincd, but IL Is evident that uo
strikers are disturbed by the present aspect on
affairs and especially by the determined stand
taken by the Delaware. Lackawanna and WESTERN
Company. Fifty strikers applied for work. ous
were refused, the superintendent believing that they
merely wanted to get on the whar' eS ana ''S W
persuade the new men TO quit work
The only episode during the day at WeehawKen
WAS the paying OF the strikers by the delaware
and hudson Canal Company. The men had been
informed that they would be paid on at the com
uany's Office In Cortandt-st., this city, out they
IT, ON the wharf and went quietly after re-
ceyinp 10. The new men were all at work. ana
the large force OF constabes and deputy shcrgs
rcmaiucd on duty Sheriff lieintze swoie IN new
lot of deputies to the number OF lou ana Nep
ihnn, in reserve at me Court House In Jersey